This unconventional book exceeds a conventional memoir. Dinga Fatman vividly describes his struggles as an aspiring economist in Pretoria, South Africa. The author is sharply critical of certain employers and the social-economic realities holding them in place. The author gives a somewhat unflattering self-portrait, but his insights seem irrefutably relevant to the majority of people. All employees need to understand the market mechanisms they are subjected to, keeping them in place and depriving them of liberty. Financial independence may be achievable by making essential investments and other economical key decisions, such as the author has tried with mixed success.